Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!

Japanese television series

was a popular Japanese variety show, shown on Fuji TV. The first episode aired on 16 October 1996 and the last episode aired on 31 March 2018. The hosts of the show were the owarai duo Ninety Nine (Takashi Okamura and Hiroyuki Yabe). The show was also known as Mecha Ike (めちゃイケ).

The show consists of a varied selection of games (called corners) and comedy sketches in a format that is relatively typical of popular Japanese comedy themed variety shows, though many of the games are never played more than once. Generally each show introduces one special guest, and they take a central role in most of the games. The following is a list of a few corners that were played on the show.

In Mechagginton 2 (or the 'second season of Mechagginton), children become part of the audience and participants in the game. The difference between the first and second version of this game is the punishment. A group of demons brandishing large fans (harisen) burst into the room, threatening the group and the loser. If the loser is a child, the demons proceed to hoist the child to scare them. The loser comedian is either subjected to a scare or, for most cases, a slap on the head with the fan.

Only available for download on Japan's Apple's Appstore or Android's Google Play store, the Mechagginton app features a rhythm game where the player must match the correct onomatopoeia to the object displayed in the center of the screen. The app has been downloaded over a million times.

This corner parodies the opening sequence of the period drama, Ooku Hana no Ran. Yamamoto portrays as the shogun, Yama sama, walking down the reception hall where he is being received by the bowing handmaidens of Yama Oku, portrayed by the other members of the show. As he passes by the members, he picks one of the members and tries to make them laugh. If a member laughs, a punishment is then followed. The punishment is considerably lighter than other Mecha Ike games hence the participation of the women of the show in this corner.

Parody of the Japanese version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Okamura's character, the MC, is called Oka Monta, parodying Monta Mino.

Parody of Police 24 Hours, a Japanese show similar to Cops, but focused on the activities of Japanese police. Okamura, Kato, Hamaguchi and Yabe are dressed as policemen of Fuji TV, going around "arresting" celebrities in and around Fuji TV.

The show also broadcasts special episodes, which generally last two to four hours.

The guests on these specials are given an innocuous sounding work assignment or a scheduled appearance at a certain place. When they turn up, however, they find themselves walking onto a set rigged out as a makeshift classroom. They are then told that they will be taking a middle school level end of term exam (in school uniform, no less) on Japanese, mathematics, science, society (which covers geography and history in Western curricula) and English. Each test for each subject lasts 50 minutes. At the end of the exam, the "teacher" and his assistant (Takashi Okamura and Fuji TV announcer Mizuki Sano) grade the papers and go about ridiculing the incorrect answers. After this, the test rankings are announced starting from the top and lowest scoring person is eventually named and crowned in a special mock ceremony. Past guests have included Rinka, Egashira 2:50, Kuniko Asagi, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Sonim, members of Morning Musume, and members of AKB48. Occasionally, some of Mechaike's own members are themselves duped into playing, mainly for comic effect and to round out the bottom of the test rankings. Eighteen editions of End of Term Exams have taken place. To date, Akemi Darenogare, a Brazilian born Japanese personality who participated in the 16th edition of the End of Term Exams featuring female personalities, is considered the worst scoring with a score of 192. Fuji TV television presenter Rei Kikukawa, who partook in the 14th edition of the End of Term Exams celebrating Fuji TV's 55 years of television broadcast, has the highest score of 459. The End of Term Exams led to several running gags. Yasuko Mitsura portrays herself as a high scoring, overachieving teacher's pet while, Koji Kato is considered a math wiz of the group, once scoring 100 on the mathematics portion of the exam. Yabe Hiroyuki, the tsukkomi of Ninety nine, performs poorly during the test, further solidifying a perception that he is the weaker member of group compared to the livelier Okamura Takeshi, the boke of Ninety nine. Masaru Hamaguchi repeatedly scores poorly in the exams, always coming in last during the test except in one instance where the last place went to Satomi Shigemori, another member of the show. Hamaguchi's most memorable moment during the test was when he spelled his name as Hamaguche rather than Hamaguchi in the English portion of the exams. His performance during the tests solidify his natural airheadedness compared to his role of the tsukkomi in Yoiko. In 2013, an exam episode featuring 15 AKB48 members was filmed with the 7 lowest scoring girls forming the AKB48 sub unit "Baka 7" (Idiot 7); a play on words of "Kami 7". The member with the absolute lowest exam score would also be awarded the position of group center. The taping of this episode also led to the creation of the song for AKB48 called "HASUTE TO WASUTE" which is in reference to AKB48 member Kawaei Rina misunderstanding the idiom "haste makes waste" for two people named Hasute and Wasute.